The United States has suspended travel from Brazil, which has emerged as the world’s second largest virus hotspot.
The White House said non-Americans who had been in Brazil in the two weeks prior to requesting entry would be barred.
The restrictions will not apply to trade. The US has already banned foreign nationals arriving from a number of other countries including China, Iran and European countries.
Brazil has registered 653 new coronavirus deaths taking the total to twenty two thousand six hundred and 66.
The number of confirmed infections jumped by fifteen thousand eight hundred and 13 to three hundred and sixty three thousand, two hundred and 11 second only to the US tally of more than 1.6 million infections and almost hundred thousand deaths.
